Professor Daniel Monk

Profile

Socio-legal research drawing on a variety of doctrinal, archival, empirical methods – always endeavouring to develop a conversation between childhood studies and child law. Funded research by Nuffield Foundation, Socio-Legal Studies Association. Editor, Child and Family Law Quarterly.

Research

Publications

• (2018) Siblings, contact and the law: an overlooked relationship?. Nuffield Foundation.
• (2017) Dressing up for school: beyond rights and welfare. In: Dinter, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present.
• (2011) Challenging homophobic bullying in schools: the politics of progress. International Journal of Law in Context 7 (2), pp. 181-207.
• (2005) (Re)constructing the Head Teacher: legal narratives and the politics of school exclusions. Journal of Law and Society 32 (3), pp. 399-423 
• (2004) Problematising home education: challenging ‘parental rights’ and 'socialisation'. Legal Studies 24 (4), pp. 568-598. 
• (2002) Children's rights in education: making sense of contradictions. Child and Family Law Quarterly 14 (1), pp. 45-56 
• (2000) Theorising education law and childhood: constructing the ideal pupil. British Journal of Sociology of Education 21 (3), pp. 355-370
• (1998) Sex education and HIV/AIDS: political conflict and legal resolution. Children and Society 12 (4), pp. 295-305 

Expertise